Bogotá carrera 17 calle 25 barrio santa fe

History of Santa Fé

  • Legal foundation
    1538

    Legal foundation

    This event happened in the San Agustín and San francisco rivers
  • Creation of Las nieves neighboorhood
    1538

    Creation of Las nieves neighboorhood

    After the foundation of the city, it was divided in four chapels, one of them was Las Nieves, a very important place in the development of the city. Las nieves is considerated one of the first neighboorhoods in the history of bogotá
  • Foundation
    Aug 6, 1538

    Foundation

    Gonzalo Jimenez de Quesada founded the bogotá city under the name of Santa fe, in honor of the city of Santafé de Granada in Spain.
  • San victorino chapel
    1578

    San victorino chapel

    Before being one of the first neighborhoods as Las nieves, San victorino was a chapel of the city.
  • Monserrate

    Monserrate

    The fernandez family started the building of this religious center
  • Creation of Las cruces neighboorhood

    Creation of Las cruces neighboorhood

    In this place the people established rural houses and later they built Las cruces chapel
  • La perseverancia neighboorhod

    La perseverancia neighboorhod

    This place was the first working-class district of the city, here established the workers of Bavaria brewery
  • Process of urbanization of Santa Fe neighboorhood

    Process of urbanization of Santa Fe neighboorhood

    The architect Karl Brunner was the responsible of the building of the first houses of the neighboorhood, where stablished artisants and merchisents